Chapter 124: Intent
85_85536 Because of this, although Sarida Khan did not mean it. But in the process of getting along with him, whether it is a minister, a general, a servant or an ordinary soldier, he can feel great pressure. Even the children and grandchildren of Sarida Khan, the nobles of the royal palace, and the relatives of the Golden Family were the same.
Celire is no exception.
A year earlier, on the orders of Sarida Khan, he had gone to Mazovia to conduct a secret operation, and then he returned in defeat, and he was stripped of his position by Sarida Khan. Whether it is the title of a prince or the military position of a centurion of the cowardly Xue army, it is the same.
Actually, though. Sarida Khan didn't blame him too much. Because he knows that there is a reason for Sailile's failure.
When facing the Red Knights, even having thousands of troops may not guarantee their own safety. Not to mention that there was only one hundred-man team around him.
He just wanted to give it a try. I didn't expect it to succeed. In fact, after hearing that Sailile had met the Red Knight and survived, Sarida Khan was surprised.
"Could it be that the human person's personality has changed now?" said Sarida Khan.
As a wise ruler, Sarida Khan was very reasonable. and will not do things that do not conform to their own identity because of their personal feelings.
Yes, although he really doesn't like Sailier. I even hope that there will be some "accidents" in Cellilei. However, these personal feelings will not affect his decision-making at all, let alone the status of Celilei in the Tartarya Khanate.
Even, Sarida Khan once seriously considered whether Salilei could inherit his position and become the next Great Khan of the Khanate.
Although it is a little more difficult. Even, if it is not done well, it is very likely that the khanate will be plunged into turmoil. However, if it is done well, then for the development of the khanate, the significance for the khanate is very huge.
Why? Because, the pedigree of Celile is a problem.
The khanate's identification with the "noble bloodline" was based entirely on patrilineal blood. As long as the father's position is noble enough, then the mother's birth as a slave does not affect the status of her children.
However, this is only based on the Centaur race. And it doesn't include humans.
Although the centaurs of insight, like Sarida Khan, were able to recognize the benefits of national integration and national reconciliation to the khanate. But there is no shortage of diehards anywhere, in any race.
In the Tartariya Khanate, there were naturally many centaurs who considered centaurs to be superior to the people, and they were truly "superior". It can even be said to occupy the vast majority of the entire centaur group.
In fact, not only psychologically, but also in terms of the laws and customs of the khanate. They are for humanity. In particular, discrimination against settlers is also reflected.
At the time of the initial establishment of the Khanate. The laws of the Khanate even explicitly stipulate that the intelligent beings in the Khanate are divided into three classes. The first class is naturally the centaur race. The second class is the same as the centaurs, who live by herding. Including Cumans, Kipchaks, Tatars and many more. The third class was then conquered by the centaurs, the sedentary farming, half-farming, half-pastoral.
Later the rulers of the Khanate also conceived it. If the conquest to the west continues and the land of the human empire in the west is controlled, then the Goths there can be positioned as "fourth-class people".
It's just a pity that this "creative" idea was not realized in the end. In several wars with the Gothic Empire, the Centaur Khanate did not take advantage of anything. Although it more or less occupies some scattered land. However, very few large-scale Gothic groups survive.
Originally, these frontier lands were sparsely populated. And before the Centaur Khanate rose, it was also at the forefront of the struggle between the Guslavites and the Goths. The ratio of the Slavians to the Goths is basically half and half.
In this case, the fourth-class people plan to be stillborn. And with the progress of the times. Generations of centaur khans in order to appease the human feelings in the occupied areas. At the same time, it is also about making better use of human power. Expand the supply of troops and taxes. So several reforms were made to expand the status of mankind and other alien races.
During the reign of Sarida Khan, he abolished the system of third-class people with high prestige. At least legally, it was stipulated that centaurs were equal to all human races within the territory of the khanate.
Of course, those "unwritten" rules, Sarida Khan did not care. Therefore, the contradiction between centaurs and humans still exists. It's just not as sharp as it used to be.
Speaking of which, it is important to emphasize that there is no reproductive isolation between humans and centaurs. It is okay for either a male centaur to a female human, or a female centaur to a male human. And their descendants are human or centaurs, maybe half and half.
The nomads of the occupied territories married into the Slavic aristocracy in order to win over these human elites. It was also an important policy consistently pursued by the Centaur Khanate. Marry the women of the human aristocracy, and at the same time send some concubines, not very favored, or simply recognized goddaughters to the human family to be housewives, so as to gradually integrate these aristocratic forces. This is something that the Centaur Khanate is very cunning and spares no effort to promote. As a result, the nomadic and Slavic nobility had a much higher sense of identity with the Centaur Khanate than with the commoners.
It's just that there is also an unwritten rule here. It was a question of status - the children of the centaurs who lived among the human nobility, and the human children born to the centaur nobility. There is no inheritance among the respective ethnic groups.
In this regard, the Centaur Khanate once forcibly promoted a policy. It is hoped that the human aristocracy will be able to merge more quickly, or annex it.
The law and policy stipulate that all human noble families. If there is a marriage with a centaur nobleman and there are centaur offspring, then the child must inherit the title, power, and property of the centaur regardless of gender.
This greatly exacerbated the conflict between centaurs and human nobles.
Some human nobles who were more courageous and stronger directly refused the Khan's orders. There are also some human nobles who are not bold enough and not strong enough. But that doesn't mean they're going to carry out the Khan's orders.
They ostensibly obeyed the orders of the Khan. But behind the scenes, he plotted against those centaur children and killed them. And after that, he will never have sex with the centaur housewife again.
But this kind of thing, if people don't know about it, they can't do it unless they do. It's been done so much, and centaur children like this have been dying in a row. And some families have several, or even a dozen, of mass deaths. In doing so, the centaurs will naturally be suspicious, and then they will investigate. An investigation revealed that he had been killed. In order to make an example of the centaurs, they issued an order that everyone in the family except the centaur children should pay for their lives.
This further adds to the contradictions between centaurs and human aristocrats. Originally, some human nobles who didn't want to rebel had to rebel under the persecution of the butcher's knife of the centaur.
The bond between centaurs and human nobles that had been established by the Tongguò marriage method before that had been lost in this series of rebellions, civil wars, and slaughters.
That incident was the greatest setback that the Tartarya Khanate had suffered since its founding. Just a little bit, they're going to be finished.
Fortunately, after the death of the centaur Khan, who had issued those orders, the newly enthroned khan immediately set things right. A decree was issued to repeal the previous decree. The new decree stipulates that the human nobility can decide for themselves their heirs. The Centaur Khanate will not interfere. At the same time, a pardon order was issued. Pardon all the human nobles who rebelled because of this.
At the same time as pardoning and amending the decree, the centaur khan also displayed extremely high diplomatic and war skills.
He sent emissaries, with rhetoric, promises and ceded land, and stabilized the Gothic and Slavic states that were ready to counterattack Tartaria. and provoked a war between the Ostrogothic Empire and the kingdoms of Ruthenia and Pirm.
In this way, the external threat disappears. The Khan was able to concentrate all his energies on the country.
In civil wars, the khan also repeatedly defeated the rebel forces. And after defeating them, he showed extremely clever political methods.
Tong Guò was divided into a series of divisions, divisions, and the propping up of the human nobles close to the Centaur Khan's court, mercilessly slaughtering those who stubbornly opposed them. The Tartariya Khanate finally quelled the civil strife with great difficulty.
It was precisely because of this civil war that the centaur khans realized their own shortcomings, and from then on, the rulers of Tartaria became more tolerant and enlightened.
The policies of these ancestors are adhered to. Sarida Khan's policy was further enlightened. So, despite emotionally identifying with his own race, the centaurs are the best race in the world. But at the same time, intellectually, he had to recognize the power of man.
That's why he wanted Celile, because the mother of this son was a human being. Before that, there were a few human-born centaurs who received the title of nobility and even the position of patriarch of the family. But an unwritten rule is that they cannot inherit the supreme power of Tartaria. That is, the position of the khan.
In the eyes of Sarida Khan. Celier has such a role. Be kind to him and support some. And even let him inherit his place. It's not because I like him. Rather, it is because "the government is correct".
Sarida Khan considered Sayrei to be a good subordinate, an heir of good ability and mind who could inherit his position, and a tool to carry out his own policies......
The only one is not his own son.
-- And Celier felt the same way.
He admired the wisdom of Sarida Khan. Fear his khan and be loyal to his monarch. But he never thought of him as his father